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Vanity: Google is shooting themselves in the foot
08/21/2017 | McGarrett

Posted on 08/21/2017 9:18:05 AM PDT by McGarrett

Like so many of my fellow freepers, I have real intellectual problems with Google and the way it operates, but I've tended to stick with them because their news search function was extremely helpful. But they've changed things and their news search is much less helpful now.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: change; google; news; orwell; skynet
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To: McGarrett

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/one-statistics-professor-was-just-banned-google-here-his-story?page=1


41 posted on 08/21/2017 10:52:30 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: rb22982

A friend of my son LOST IT when the announcement of the WFM purchase by Amazon was given-—he cancelled his Amazon Prime account that day.

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42 posted on 08/21/2017 10:53:06 AM PDT by Mears
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To: sparklite2

Do anti-trust regulations apply only to literally exclusive product-source companies?


43 posted on 08/21/2017 11:32:14 AM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: McGarrett

I stopped using Google because of the irritating ad for Chrome that constantly pops up.

This is where I search now:

https://duckduckgo.com/


44 posted on 08/21/2017 11:46:26 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: McGarrett

Google hides results from anything they don’t like.

Period.


45 posted on 08/21/2017 11:47:12 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: YogicCowboy

I remember when AT&T’s takeover of DirecTV was being vetted. The claim was that it would create a monopoly in satellite TV availability. It was hilarious. In the first place, there was Dish. In the second place, dominance in only one means of delivery while earth bound cable TV is a massive provider, was risible.

I also remember when Eastman Kodak, which at one time was as close to being a monopoly as you could get in film sales and photofinishing, was forced under threat of anti-trust to charge more for their products to allow competition to come in selling for less. What happened was that people preferred the yellow box, happily paid excessive amounts for the products, and Kodak laughed all the way to the bank.

Capitalism in tooth and claw allows for unfettered competition. Those who provide the best for less win.


46 posted on 08/21/2017 11:48:17 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: aquila48

Wow


47 posted on 08/21/2017 11:53:05 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: HotHunt; Jane Long; aquila48

You don’t see the issue?

Man U must be 2.0 breathalyzer on virtue signaling

Google white couple and the images are nearly all mixed race or homosexual couples

Google black couples and it’s what it should be...black couples

Yet you don’t see what the issue is

Nutz


48 posted on 08/21/2017 11:57:07 AM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: aquila48

Try white couple on DuckDuckGo. Get the kids outta the room.


49 posted on 08/21/2017 11:59:29 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: aquila48

Try white couple on DuckDuckGo. Get the kids outta the room.


50 posted on 08/21/2017 11:59:59 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: wardaddy
👍🏻👍🏻
51 posted on 08/21/2017 12:12:13 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Dick Bachert

Ut oh.

Afraid to look.

That bad, huh?


52 posted on 08/21/2017 12:13:09 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: wardaddy; HotHunt; Jane Long

The issue is simple - miscegenation.

Goolag, TV shows, ads, movies, etc are all pushing it.

We are puppets on their strings.

It won’t be long that if you refuse to date someone of a different race you will be publicly exposed and tarred and feathered as a racist.


53 posted on 08/21/2017 12:37:22 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: McGarrett

I’ve switched to Duck Duck Go.


54 posted on 08/21/2017 12:38:30 PM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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To: Dick Bachert

No t much better than google - I think they use google and others to get their results. They’re a search aggregators.


55 posted on 08/21/2017 12:43:40 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: HotHunt

Agreed.


56 posted on 08/21/2017 12:54:53 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: McGarrett

Google is dead as a scientific tool that the internet was. Google is now just another facebook niche leftist boutique, a scam.


57 posted on 08/21/2017 1:01:32 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: aquila48

You already are here on this forum by some


58 posted on 08/21/2017 1:21:35 PM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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To: wardaddy
Much to do about nothing.

Like I said before, I don't use Google myself.

Just use another search engine if you don't like their results. Nobody is stopping you, including me.

Why everybody is up in arms over this I don't understand.

Raises my BP for nothing.

59 posted on 08/21/2017 1:40:31 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: HotHunt; Jane Long; aquila48

You’re full of it no offense

It’s no big deal the worlds largest search engine editorialized results to that degree that it replaces logical results with the complete opposites to brainwash

Imagine you type in Nazis but instead get results comprised mostly of IDF soldiers and soldierettes

Problem with that or again no big deal right?


60 posted on 08/21/2017 2:12:36 PM PDT by wardaddy (Virtue signalers should be shot on sight...conservative ones racked and hanged then fed to dogs)
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